Tori Rivera

🌲 Oregon grown | half 🇬🇹 | graphic designer👩🏻‍💻 | dinosaur lover 🦕 | GIRL AND THE MACHINE available on Amazon and B&N

[Tori Rivera @toririv]

Finally published my first book baby (now on KU and also in paperback) ☺️

#scifibooks #beautyandthebeast #indie #ku #kindlebooks

https://t.co/GRC8TVHfB7

[Tori Rivera @toririv]

First drafts, am I right?

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3yo 👧🏻: Mommy, milk comes from cows.
Me: Yes, that’s true, it does. Do you know where eggs come from?
3yo: Dinosaurs!

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Anyone else kind of not want to take medication when they're sick because they don't want to give themselves the illusion that they're better and end up overexerting themselves doing daily tasks?

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@kestanton1 Honestly I think all the retweets are just burying each other. If I was an agent I’d be so overwhelmed looking at the feed. Plus a lot of agents tend to taper off on trying to acquire new projects at the end of the year (so I’ve heard) so there also might not be as many checking.

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@jessicarichter Thanks! It’s been a wild ride trying to make it work, but I’m pretty excited about the rewrite I finished a couple months ago. 😅

[harjit singh .⁺˚✦･༓☀️ @_harjitsingh]

its time to talk about one of the best tropes

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Couples about to have their third kid should announce it by saying “We’re switching to zone defense.”

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I'm not saying the gender-swapped remakes lately have been *successful* but someone please tell me why no one considered a girl main character for the new Home Alone. I would have happily thrown money at that.

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Trying to make myself take much-needed breaks from intense writing/revising streaks like

[Ahmad Sami (Call me Sami) @agletterman]

😭😭please tell me I am not alone😭😭

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😂 IYKYK #apbio #writingcommunity #neindanke

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Me trying to address all my work emails and clear out my inbox.

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@LaurenKFoley Kids can, technically. The biggest tapirs are about the size of ponies, so they can take a little bit of weight, but human adults would be too heavy to ride them.

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@rheaswriting 😆😭💯

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Bae: You want some music while you shower?
Me: Oh, um … no thanks. I’m just going to be a minute.
Bae: *Starts playing #NSync “Tearin’ Up My Heart”*
Me: Okay. Wow. Rude. Way to make me feel super ol—AND NO MATTER WHAT I DO I FEEL THE PAIN

[Tori Rivera @toririv]

Don't mind me—just listening to my work meeting on mute while I try to wash kinetic sand out of this silicone bubble popper's 5000 crevices. #toddlermom

[Tori Rivera @toririv]

Husband: *drops bag of Doritos*
Me:
Husband: Well, we have twice as many now.
Me: And yet, not twice as much ...